Let’s be clear: these aren’t your average index funds. Covered call ETFs are built to capture income from chaos. By writing options on stocks they already own, they lock in steady premiums no matter how wild the market swings. Investors are hungry for this strategy, and why shouldn’t they be? It’s one of the few places where uncertainty can pay.
Wealth is all the stuff you own that has value — money, houses, land, businesses, stocks, and even assets like art or gold. Wealth inequality means that some people have way more of this stuff than others. Imagine if 10 kids were in a room and one kid had 95 candy bars, while the other nine kids had to share and fight over the remaining five candy bars between them. That’s wealth inequality.
Enter Buffett. No fanfare, no hints dropped to CNBC, no “Buffett tracker” countdown. Just a quiet, $1.6 billion stake built while everyone else was chasing shiny objects in tech. And then — boom — the filing hits in mid-August. $UNH rips higher. Traders pile in. Investors nod like old sages. One disclosure. Two reactions. But the bigger story? Buffett just planted his flag in the middle of a battlefield most investors were too scared to step foot on.
The headlines tell one story. Your wallet tells another. “Inflation is cooling,” the reports declare, but your grocery bill, rent, and utilities haven’t gotten the memo. If anything, the numbers on the receipt seem bolder every month. For traders, that gap between the official narrative and the lived experience isn’t just frustrating, it’s dangerous.
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Everybody’s heard of the Magnificent 7 — AAPL, MSFT, GOOGL, AMZN, META, NVDA, TSLA — the rockstars of the modern stock market. Most folks treat these names like they’re sacred relics handed down from the financial gods. And hey, looking at their cumulative returns since IPO, who could blame ‘em? These stocks didn’t just beat the market — they redefined what winning looks like. They’ve printed fortunes, built empires, and made average Joes feel like Warren Buffett… for a while.
You only need to remember three steps: Get paid to maybe buy a stock (by selling puts). This obliges you to buy the stock at an agreed upon strike price between now and the expiration date. Get paid to maybe sell that stock (by selling calls). Once you are assigned the stock you reduce risk by selling call options and collecting premium. Rinse and Repeat.
What makes Relative Strength so compelling is its versatility, its flexibility, and above all — its philosophy. This isn’t just another technical indicator buried inside a charting platform. It’s a lens, a way of thinking that reshapes how traders, portfolio managers, and even corporate executives view performance. At its core, Relative Strength teaches a simple, powerful truth: strength matters — and if you don’t know what’s strong or weak, you’re not trading, you’re guessing.
That brings us to the real question traders are asking: “Why are Bitcoin treasury stocks outperforming and will that last?” That’s exactly what we’re going to unpack. Because the opportunity is real, but so is the risk.
We’re six months deep into 2025 and the S&P 500 is up less than 3.5%. That’s it. After all the headline-chasing, pulse-pounding reversals, and late-night stress sessions watching futures tick red… you’re sitting on a gain that barely keeps up with a savings account. Meanwhile, traders have been whipsawed by the ten-headed beast of macros: sticky inflation, Fed mind games, geopolitical powder kegs, and enough bond market volatility to rattle the teeth out of a risk manager. A.I. stocks soared, oil prices spiked, and the only thing more unpredictable than the markets was the messaging from central banks and Capitol Hill. Bottom line? That’s a lot of stress for just 3.5%. And if you’re not using A.I. to navigate this mess, you’re flying blind in a storm built for machines.
